The Bossier banner., 1887-10-13
Police Jury Proceedings.

Police Jury met In regular session.
Present-E. s. Dortch, President,
W. B. Boggs, J. A. Sewall, D, E.
Griffin and Thomas Lyles.
The minutes of last meeting read
and approved. The following officers
were allowed their quarter salaries,
ending September Soth, 1887: R. E.
Wyche, Sheriff. $1l25 90; B. A.
Kelly. Treasurer, $75 90; W. H.
Scanland, S62 SO; J. A. w. Lowry,
$25, and ]. H. Keyser, 40 90.
A. r. Thompson was then author
szed to purchase an index book for
the Recorders Office.
Petitions were presented, asking
for elections ON prohibition in wards
2 and 8, which were laid over, the
necessary time not having expired for
another election in ward 3.
A petition was presented from the
citizens of ward 6, asking that an
election be ordered in ward 6 for the
purpose of testing the sense of the
voters on the sale of Intoxicating
liquors in said ward, when the follow
ing ordinance was submitted and
passed:
Whereas, a large number Of the
legal voters of ward 6 have signed
petition to the Police Jury of Bossier
parish, praying that an election be
ordered for the purpose of giving the
legal voters of said ward an oppor-
tunity of voting for or against the
sale of intoxicating LIQUORS within the
limits of said ward.
The following commissioners and
clerks are hereby appointed to hold
said election, to-wit: Bellevue, E. M.
Carstarphen, E. g. Biggs and W. NJ.
Morrow as commissioners, and L. B.
Kelly, clerk at Haughton, L. NJ.
Platt, N. L. Bryan and G. A. Wasson,
commissioners, and e. j. McDade,
clerk.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
Police Jury in and for Bossier Par
ish, La, That in accordance with the
provisions of section 2776 of the
Revised Statutes of 1870 of the State
of Louisiana, an election will be held
on November the 21st, 1887, at Belle
vue and Haughton, in said ward 6,
in accordance with the general cleo
ton laws of the State of Louisiana.
The ballots to be deposited in boxes
to be furnished by the sheriff of Bos-
sier parish for the purpose of giving
the legal voters of said ward 6 an op-
portunity to vote for Or against the
sale of Intoxicating liquors, in said
ward, and those voting for the sale of
intoxicating liquors shall have written
or printed on their ballots, "For the
sale of liquors; and voters voting
against the sale Of liquors shall have
written or printed on their ballots,
Against the sale of liquors"
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, &C.,
That the commissioners, who have
been appointed to hold said election;
after being duly sworn, shall hold
said election according to law, and,
after the polls of said election are
closed, proceed to count the ballots
as cast, make, sign and seal the tally
sheets and return them together with
the box containing the ballots to the
President of the Police Jury, at the
Courthouse, in Bellevue, La, ON the
I'd Monday in January, 1883.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, &C..
That the President OF Police Jury
shall open the returns of said cleo.
tion, In presence of the body in ses-
sion, and promulgate the result. If
majority of the votes cast in said
election be against the sale of liquors,
IN said ward, the Sheriff and Ex-ofi-
eio Tax Collector of Bossier Parish
shall be forbidden to grant any